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Has nothing to do with knowing the answer, and everything to do with infinite persistence. I believe any current-generation LLM can, given an environment where it can experiment rapidly, do anything.

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It can literally only write words. And it cant even do that well. It only does well at coding and math because it can be brute forced against compilers/verifiers. There is no compiler for the human body, the closest thing we have too it is death. The chemistry and physics going on in the body is much more complex and mysterious than all this math and computer science LLMs are helping with.

LLMs aren't going to make you live forever. This is a marketing scam. They are stateless statistical models that spit out words. Thats it.

Current generation LLMs still can’t win single player games that most humans can win. Someday the LLM will be able to complete getting over it by Bennett Foddy, that day is not today

That’s a game that relies heavily on quick timing though, if there’s no minimum period of time I’m sure there would be less of an issue.

No, I think if you paused the game while the LLM is thinking it will still fail.

Even outside of controls based games, LLMs fail on sokoban like puzzles weirdly enough, see MazeBench, they’re also not that good at chess, probably around 1600 elo.

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